Knysh, Alexander D., <br/><br/>
Sufism :  a new history of Islamic mysticism / 
Alexander Knysh. 
 - xiv, 389 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>How and why Sufism came to be -- What's in a name? How definitions of Sufism have become a site of polemical partis-pris -- Discourses -- Sufism in comparison : the common ferment of Hellenism -- Practices, ethos, communities, and leaders -- Sufism's recent trajectories : what lies behind Sufi-Salafi confrontation? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691139098 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sufism--History.<br/>Mysticism--Islam--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>219  / K  74